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Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics

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Quezada, Juan Carlos, Etter, Andres, Ghazoul, Jaboury, Buttler, Alexandre, Guillaume, Thomas·2019·Science Advances
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aaw4418PMC PMC6867872
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Pasture conversion is a promising alternative to cut down the carbon footprint of deforestation for oil palm expansion.

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Authors
Quezada, J. C., Etter, A., Ghazoul, J., Buttler, A., & Guillaume, T.
Affiliations
  • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (CH)
  • Department of Ecology and Territory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Quezada, Juan Carlos
ORCID
Venue
Science Advances
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2019-11
Volume
5
Issue
11
Pages
eaaw4418-eaaw4418
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.aaw4418
PMC
PMC6867872
OpenAlex
W2991418549
Cited by
59
References
2
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FWCI
5.30
Type
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Language
en
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Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • ETH Zürich Research Collection
Funders
Swiss National Science (r4d - Ecosystems) “Oil Palm Adaptive Landscape” Foundation (152019)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Keywords
oil palm plantations, land use change, carbon neutrality, ecosystem carbon storage, soil organic carbon, savanna, rainforest conversion, carbon footprint, plantation sustainability, Neotropical region
MeSH terms
Agriculture, Carbon, Colombia, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environment, Soil, Ecosystem, Biomass, Carbon Sequestration, Rainforest

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